Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
There are words which cut like steel.
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